BILL NUMBER:  SB 456
  VETOED	DATE: 09/08/2015




To the Members of the California State Senate:

I am returning Senate Bill 456 without my signature.

No one could be anything but intolerant of threats to cause great
bodily injury, especially on school grounds. Certainly not
legislators, who voted nearly unanimously for this bill.

While I'm sympathetic and utterly committed to ensuring maximum
safety for California's school children, the offensive conduct
covered by this bill is already illegal.

In recent decades, California has created an unprecedented number of
new and detailed criminal laws. Before we keep enacting more, I think
we should pause and reflect on the fact that our bulging criminal
code now contains in excess of 5,000 separate provisions, covering
almost every conceivable form of human misbehavior.

Sincerely,



Edmund G. Brown Jr.